Very simple: eliminate exclusionary zoning bylaws in the most overpriced real estate markets.
"The rent is too damn high."
3-day work weeks will quickly follow.
"The rent is too damn high."
3-day work weeks will quickly follow.
Fixing housing through mandating remote work also would go a long way, so you’re not held hostage to a job through geographic requirements. Kudos to remote first/remote only Orgs contributing in this regard. We can always use more flexible/remote roles ("mostly" remote, flexible enough to still have reasonable amounts of face to face time with colleagues or others in the industry).
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Fixing the housing supply problem appears to be critical here. Without increasing supply, folks might find ways to work around the "mandate" out of sheer necessity.
Also I think the OP should broaden the question to read "lifelong contributors." The learning is a very important component of this, but broadly construed, that learning should include the practical experience gained from contributing to all sorts endeavors that produce social value. One of the critical problems with today's workforce is that so much of the work revolves around what social anthropologist David Graeber calls "Bullshit Jobs."
There's often very little to learn in these environments except how to play office politics more astutely ... the next time around.
To your point about bullshit jobs, they must be destroyed using policy as part of these efforts, while still providing a stable safety net for life long learners to have the opportunity to generate value society can't yet predict. Everyone who wants a job should be able to have one they want; those who don't want a job are cheap to provide for (automated ag, cheap/clean energy, etc) with properly architected public good systems. Some of these issues are societal ("puritanical work ethic", "suffering is good for the soul", etc) and will take time to recalibrate (I have seen this first hand in conversations with people, and I'm sure others have as well).
Apply force in the desired direction of progress and don't let up.
We need to shift more in the direction of a direct democracy, using the blockchain perhaps as a next generation digital ballot box. Not holding my breath though that this will happen within the lifetime of any one reading hacker news right now. There's just too much at stake for our corporate overlords.
No blockchain!